The sound effects for computer-generated movies are still recorded from real life, but modelling the physics of the real world could change that – see and hear the results for yourself ...

The splash was widely used in 1920s and for 1930s jazz, and then, much like its fast-fading effect, seemed to vanish for the next few decades.

First launched for Pro plan subscribers, the sound effects come from a Pika Labs in-house text-to-audio model that tries to match the video prompt text.